Jean Daligault

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Jean Daligault (born June 8, 1899 in Caen ; † March or April 1945 in Dachau concentration camp ) was a Catholic priest and artist.

Life

Jean Daligault was a Catholic priest. After the occupation of France , he participated in the Resistance . On August 31, 1941, he was arrested in Villerville . As an NN prisoner of the National Socialists , he was imprisoned in the SS special camp in Hinzert . There are several witness reports about his time in Hinzert from October 10, 1942 to March 25, 1945; Among other things, fellow prisoner Serge Croix reported that Daligault was forced to sing prayers during meals instead of taking his food ration. At that time he lived on parts of the bread rations that other inmates kept for him and that he had to soak in water because his teeth had been knocked out during interrogations in France. During his imprisonment, Daligault created drawings and sculptures that testify to the conditions in the camps. The Luxembourger Lucien Wercollier , who was also imprisoned in Hinzert, received a sculpture from Daligault in gratitude for food that showed one of the usual torture methods: two prisoners were handcuffed by the wrists and had to stand back to back in the open air. Wercollier, who was later moved to Birkenhof and then to Lower Silesia, managed to hide and preserve this carving. He later created his work Le prisonnier politique based on Daligault's sculpture.

Lucien Wercolliers Prisonnier politique

Other works of art by Jean Daligault have also been preserved.

Stolperstein in Trier

After his imprisonment in Hinzert, Jean Daligault was transferred to various prisons, including Trier and Wittlich . From September 1943 to August 1944 he was in prison on Trier Windstrasse. He was killed there shortly before the Dachau concentration camp was liberated . The exact circumstances of his death are unknown, and the date of death is also controversial.

The resistance museums in Caen and Besançon have numerous drawings and sculptures by Daligault. In the years 1999/2000 Daligault's works of art were shown in a bilingual commentary touring exhibition. The first stop was the Trier Cathedral and Diocesan Museum .

literature

  • Christian Dorrière, L'Abbé Jean Daligault. Un peintre dans les camps de la mort , Éditions du Cerf 2001, ISBN 2-204-06631-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 5: Hinzert, Auschwitz, Neuengamme. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-52965-8 , p. 32 f.
  2. ↑ Hedwig Brüchert and Michael Matheus, Forced Labor in Rhineland-Palatinate during the Second World War (Geschichtliche Landeskunde (Gl)) , Franz Steiner 2005, ISBN 978-3515082792 , p. 26
  3. ↑ According to this page , he was only deported to Dachau on April 5, 1945 and murdered there shortly afterwards.
  4. ↑ permanent exhibition. In: Museum Besançon. Retrieved January 13, 2020 (French).
  5. ↑ http://www.ateliergestaltung.de/Daligault1.html
personal data
SURNAME Daligault, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French clergyman, artist and Nazi victim
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Caen
DATE OF DEATH March 1945 or April 1945
Place of death Dachau concentration camp